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- From: dlk0ms9s@umiami.ir.miami.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.171915.14234@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 17:19:15 EST
- References: <A59959@HB.maus.de> <A45838@K.maus.de> <72073@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Univ of Miami IR
- Lines: 29
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- In article <72073@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- > Peter Missel writes:
- > j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
- >>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
- >
- > How about $300 as a reason..?
- >
- > Given a retail price of $799 for the entire Falcon, do you really think
- > it's reasonable to tell people to expect to pay more than 40% of the
- > cost of the computer to just add a floppy disk drive..?
- >
- > How do you explain to someone who would like to add a $42 floppy drive
- > that it's going to take a Floptial 21 Meg drive to accomplish what they
- > want to do..?
- >
- > BobR
- >
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- OK guys, I have the reason why there is no external floppy on the Falcon.
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- The disc drive would take too much power away from the new
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- FLACONbOOk 030
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- Coming RSN... / /
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- \__/ Mark Santora
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